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I’m a software engineer and general tinkerer with over 20 years experience developing systems and code to control them. I work on architectures for mobile robots most of the time but also have done a lot of lab automation, signal processing, and human computer interfaces.
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VcXsvr setup on 3840 x 2160 display
I’m running an ubuntu 16.04 vm in hyper-v on my Dell XPS 15 (9560). The host OS is Windows 10 Pro. I have been just using the Windows Subsystem for Linux default installation to get a console to ssh into the VM running under hyper-v. The problem with that is the windows console used for …
execute bit when editing in Visual Studio / Samba share
I’ve started using Visual Studio 2017 community edition to load up a project stored in a ubuntu 16.04 server running as a hyperV virtual machine. The project files are accessed via a samba share and I find the visual studio sets the execute bit when I edit and save a file even though my /etc/samba/smb.conf …
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gdb initialization file
Here are settings I currently use in my .gdbinit file to control the behavior history set history save on set history size 20 set history remove-duplicates unlimited set history filename ~/.gdb_history